Iatrogenic Suicide

I will define the term I have determined to discuss on this page.

Our children are going into therapy and are there being led into a break with reality by the ones they have trusted to make them whole. Far too often this misguided but lucrative therapy has resulted in nervous breakdown and suicide.

Psychiatrists and therapists mostly claim such suicides prove how ill the patient really was. Perhaps they would do better to reflect on what role their methods and unhealthy influence over patients played in the patient's decision to choose death over continued therapy and drug dependence.

When so many former MPD/DID and BPD patients testify about their former therapy-induced self-destructive behaviors including scapegoating mom and dad, self-mutilation, suicidial ideation, it can be seen that assigning such a diagnosis, if iatrogenic, is tanamount to abuse and torture. In some cases it amounts to a death sentence.

In many cases, the psychiatrist prescribes a psychotropic drug which eventually becomes the means for the patient committing suicide. Having these lethal pills close at hand when overwhelmed by strong emotions has most likely contributed to more than a few deaths.

Patients encouraged in self-focus and to go with their strong feelings and uncontrolled emotions may opt for the permanent solution which suicide seems to offer. This is especially true when mind-bending drugs dampen their ability to reason or decrease their empathy for others who love them.

How strange that mentally and emotionally unstable people who lack self-control are being prescribed deadly poisons to keep at their bedside by people calling themselves "professionals."
Could anything be more inappropriate?

In many cases the "ethical" pharmaceutical industy promotes the myth of "chemical imbalance" causing mental illness. This sets up the public for accepting expensive pills for their problems in living, many of which are sin problems and the resulting symptoms of self-focus, guilt and shame. A better solution would be to emphasize personal responsibility and morality, but this apparently is not acceptable in a pc world.

The pharaceutical companies whose sales of psychotropic drugs are in billions of dollars, give hundreds of millions to schools, including christian seminaries, which promote psychology and psychotherapy. This should cause us to pause and consider whether this is a conflict of interest with matters of faith.

Are we only to believe God and the Holy Bible when it is pragmatic or convenient to do so? Will we only believe God when it makes sense within the framework of "chemical imbalance" which the psyche industries have woven so beautifully? Is this another case of the "emperor has no clothes?"

Perhaps associated with the mental and emotional symptoms of some recovered memory patients are serious physical complaints such as lupus or multiple schlerosis. This has been noticed in several cases. This may be due to the effect of strong psychiatric meds on the body's immune system. Lupus involves a malfunction of this immune system. The connection begs for further study.

Indiscriminate dosing of large segments of the population with psychotropic drugs is irresponsible psychiatry. Psychiatrist Dr. Peter Breggin says a person should not run to take pills at desperate times in his/her life. Instead they should go to God at such times for his solution and wisdom.
{radio interview Sept 11,1998 with Ed Bulkley}

According to Dr. Breggin, the first thing to go when the drugs are taken is the person's spirituality. It becomes much harder for a person to correctly hear from God while on the meds. Their reality is distorted further by such chemicals.

Drugs work primarily by causing brain dysfunction, according to Dr. Peter Breggin. None of these drugs make the brain work more normally. The drugs seem to work due the "brain injury" effect which they produce in a healthy brain.

Symptoms are signals that there is something wrong with the human organism. Emotional symptoms indicate spiritual problems or problems with the soul. Using conscience-numbing drugs amounts to disconnecting the soul's alarm system. This system was designed by our Creator to signal us when something is wrong. Although the alarm is silenced or stifled, the danger may still be present and doing real damage to the system. Just as a fire alarm can be turned off while a fire continues spreading.

As an observer of the mental health industry, my view is that many of the diagnoses or labels being assigned to patients are bogus and counter-productive. Some are downright dangerous.

These mythical diagnoses amount to deceptive and misleading consumer practices guaranteed to confuse, harm, and possibly destroy the lives of these patients and their families.

Such callous lack of regard for truth, ethical business practice, and the detrimental effect on the health and sanity of clients and their families constitutes gross malpractice.

Civil lawsuits for fraud and malpractice by former patients continue to increase as they realize how badly they have been misled and damaged by psychiatrists, psychologists, and therapists.

Malpractice insurance rates are soaring, even as some insurance companies give advice to therapists about how to evade patient lawsuits. Is there not something disturbing and disgusting about insurance consultants advising doctors and care-givers on how to avoid patient lawsuits while these continue to retrieve questionable abuse memories? Shouldn't the public withhold their insurance dollars from such unethical companies?

Therapists mostly continue to practice regardless of civil damage awards against them. They do not admit error or accept responsibility for hurting their patients or their families. Is this some kind of god-complex which one sees to be so common within this industry? A very dangerous situation when a client is not allowed to question methods or unproven theories or be advised as to side-effects and alternative treatments.

Will criminal penalties be required to finally stop this toxic psychotherapy and biopsychiatry industry from using its power and propaganda to pursue monetary gain at the expense of an unwary public?

Criminal indictments have already been handed down by a federal grand jury against therapists in Houston. The first such trial began on Sept 8, 1998 but ended over six months later in a mistrial after the presiding federal judge dismissed too many jurors for cause. The defense attorneys for the therapists indicted decided they didn't want the trial to continue. Then they put their spin on that decision to say the jurors were going to find for their side anyway. The United States government attorney decided not to retry this particular case in spite of the fact that at least some of the jurors were quoted in the press as saying the government had already proven malpractice.

The indictments alleged fraud and malpractice including inventing silly and bizzare labels such as sra and mpd for patient symptoms so at to extract insurance money from patient policies. The Spring Shadows Glenn Hospital was even accused of buying supplimental coverage for the patients so as to keep them in treatment and receive additional payments of insurance money.

The government perhaps extending itself too far was also attempting to prove conspiracy against the defendants. Although having additional material and witnesses to present at trial the jurors seemed to think this crime had not been yet proved.

Perhaps future criminal trials against therapists would fare better if focused on one or two issues, such as malpractice and fraud and greatly shortened so that the jurors won't lose interest, go to sleep, or forget why they are being asked to decide whether therapists are behaving ethically.

Asking them if a conspiracy is being engaged in and if these doctors are on the lunatic fringe are the wrong questions to ask the jurors. In the therapy industry it is not a few lunatics on the fringe but an entire industry which either engages in or supports toxic therapy which destroys families.

An important point to be decided by a jury is who gets to determine if such therapy practices are ethical, the industry which is biased towards full employment and marketing of member services or the public which is mesmerized and propagandized to believe these professionals know what they are doing and really care about their patients and therefore would do them no harm?

State legislators mostly take the stance that it is not up to them to define what therapy practices are ethical but this is up to the doctors themselves and their professional boards. In other words it is okay for the fox to keep stealing chickens if he doesn't see anything wrong with what he is doing.

Congress seems paralyzed, and afraid to take on the strong mental health industry lobby. At least as long as it seems they represent more votes than the few tens of thousands of families which are known to have been greatly harmed by an errant therapy industry. The leaders of the U S Congress have been made aware that families are being ruined and permanently shattered by toxic therapy. Still they fail to act. It must be a fairly low priority to them in the order of daily problems they must face. Certainly it is lower in priority than their latest salary increase.

Some have called for an investigation of the therapy industy by the National Academy of Science. This might be a good step to expose the nature and scope of the problem to a mesmerized and adoring public which are great fans of psychotherapy and its practitioners. This is what exposed the fraud of Anton Mesmer in eighteenth century France and drove this founder of hypnotic psychotherapy into shame and exile. Perhaps history would repeat itself. If only people would learn from history, they wouldn't have to suffer such heartbreaking tragedies a second time. Unfortunately, our present society finds the study of history less interesting than enlightened me-ism.

It will be up to a jury to decide the issue of ethicality of today's therapy practices. Until this issue is decided, things will pretty much continue as they are now with some members of the recovered memory cult realizing they've been had and retracting their former accusations of abuse and attempting reconciliation with their families while new therapy admirers become ensnared in the false theories and doctrines which take them captive to the psychotherapy cult.

Asking a jury to decide any matter short of whether the entire industy and its participants are guilty of malpractice and fraud will continue to fail since this industry will send large numbers of its experts to defend the errant methods and theories every time they are challenged in court. A jury must be asked to see the truth beyond what expert witnesses tell them is so in court and make their own call as to reality and what is appropriate in a given fact situation.

Using as a defense against having made a diagnosis of the mythical mpd, the fact that some psyche doctor previously made the same misdiagnosis of the same patient, should not be accepted since this is similar to saying "I ran over the lady because someone had already ran her down." Are psychiatrists and therapists unqualified to make their own professional decisions? Are they all a bunch of copycats? What good then is a second opinion?

Still, therapy supporters choose to ignore the growing evidence that therapy is neither safe nor based upon scientific methods. They have not yet accepted that the recovered memory proponents have been dead wrong and greatly harmed many of their patients and their families.

Such blind faith in doctrines built entirely upon unproven theories and expert opinion show psychotherapy and its disciples to be involved in a destructive cult.

jehu@rocketmail.com

Links to important information

The idolatry of christian psychology
Recovered Memory Bookstore purchase a book online
Second Thoughts about recovered memory therapy
The MPD/DID device
Psycho Psycho-Therapists